Re: [xsl] Unicode accented letters to simple ASCII equivalents

Subject: Re: [xsl] Unicode accented letters to simple ASCII equivalents
From: Liam R E Quin <liam@xxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 10 May 2013 16:15:26 -0400
On Fri, 2013-05-10 at 20:03 +0200, Wolfgang Laun wrote:
> On 10/05/2013, Liam R E Quin <liam@xxxxxx> wrote:
[...]
> C$, C6, C<  represented as ae, oe, ue is acceptable in German, but in
> Hungarian, [not]

Right, sorry if I wasn't clear enough - it depends on language &
context.
[...]

> > and if
> > you need all-seven-bit output C can turn to Ae or AE, a: to ss,
> 
> These are not strictly letters with diacritical marks, but I suspect
> that the original problem is either much simpler (and hasn't been
> posted as such) or much more than the elimination of diacritical
> marks.

Yes, I suspected the same too, hence no actual solution is possible
yet :)

Liam


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